Senate roll call 180 · 82nd Congress · Sep 28, 1951
HR 4473. Humphrey amend. On percentage depletion allowance.
On Sep 28, 1951, the Senate voted 9–71 (HR 4473). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 8–40, Republicans 2–38. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 82nd Congress (1951–1952), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 9
- No
- 71
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Sep 28, 1951
By party
- Democrats8 yes · 40 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 38 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Benton D-CT voted yes
- John James Williams R-DE voted yes
- Paul Howard Douglas D-IL voted yes
- Arthur Edson Blair Moody D-MI voted yes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. D-MN voted yes
- Herbert Henry Lehman D-NY voted yes
- Wayne Lyman Morse R-OR voted yes
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI voted yes
- Theodore Francis Green D-RI voted yes
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN voted yes
The bill
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Ernest William Mcfarland D-AZ
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- William Fife Knowland R-CA
- Edwin Carl Johnson D-CO
- Eugene Donald Millikin R-CO
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA
- Walter Franklin George D-GA
- Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper R-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Herman Welker R-ID
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN
- William Ezra Jenner R-IN
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Allen Joseph Ellender D-LA
- Russell Billiu Long D-LA
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R-MA
- Leverett Saltonstall R-MA
- Herbert Romulus O'Conor D-MD
- John Marshall Butler R-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Edward John Thye R-MN
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS
- John Cornelius Stennis D-MS
- James Edward Murray D-MT
- Zales Nelson Ecton R-MT
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- Willis Smith D-NC
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND
- Hugh Alfred Butler R-NE
- Howard Alexander Smith R-NJ
- Robert Clymer Hendrickson R-NJ
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- George Wilson Malone R-NV
- Patrick Anthony (Pat) Mccarran D-NV
- Irving McNeil Ives R-NY
- John William Bricker R-OH
- Robert Alphonso Taft R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Robert Samuel Kerr D-OK
- Guy Cordon R-OR
- Edward Martin R-PA
- James Henderson Duff R-PA
- Burnet Rhett Maybank D-SC
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Arthur Vivian Watkins R-UT
- Wallace Foster Bennett R-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA
- George David Aiken R-VT
- Ralph Edward Flanders R-VT
- Harry Pulliam Cain R-WA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Alexander Wiley R-WI
- Joseph Raymond Mccarthy R-WI
- Harley Martin Kilgore D-WV
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY
- Lester Callaway Hunt D-WY
Voted present
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT
- Homer Samuel Ferguson R-MI
- James Preston Kem R-MO
- William Langer R-ND
- Kenneth Spicer Wherry R-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Henry Styles (Styles) Bridges R-NH
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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